Hitler's Irishmen PDF Download

Author: Terence O'Reilly
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 1856355896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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During the Second World War, two young Irishmen served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany, swearing the oath of the Waffen-SS and wearing the organisation's uniform and even its distinctive blood group tattoo. This account, which also covers some of the other Irishmen who sided with Nazi Germany, draws on their own accounts.

Author: David Blake Knox
Publisher: New Island Books
ISBN: 9781848405967
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This is the story of 32 merchant seamen from Ireland who were held in conditions of great hardship in an SS slave labour camp from 1943-45. They were being punished for refusing to join the German war effort, and they became part of a slave work force that was used to construct an enormous bunker near the village of Farge in northern Germany. The Nazis believed they could build a 'miracle boat' in this bunker which they thought could win the war. To achieve this, they were prepared to work thousands of their slaves to death, including five of the Irishmen who died in one of their camps. Despite the savage regime they were subjected to, and unlike some other Irishmen, they steadfastly resisted all attempts by the SS to turn them into collaborators with the Third Reich. This engrossing and dramatic book explores the fascinating and tragic story of hardship and struggle, and has been updated and expanded by the author following the huge response from readers of the previous edition, Suddenly While Abroad. *** "A fascinating account of a neglected aspect of Irish involvement in the Second World War...." --The Irish Times Subject: WWII, Irish Studies, History]

Author: David Blake Knox
Publisher: New Island Books
ISBN: 9781848402003
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In February 1943, 32 Irish merchant seaman were sent to a Nazi labour camp in northern Germany. They were being punished for refusing to join the Nazi war effort, and they became part of a slave work force that was used to construct an enormous bunker. However, in order to achieve this goal, the Nazis were prepared to work thousands of slaves to their deaths - including five of the Irishmen who died in one of their camps. This is their story.

Author: David O'Donoghue
Publisher: Beyond Pale Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Tells for the first time the history of German,Radio's wartime Irish service from 1939-1945. As,well as desrcibing in details the radio station's,on air operations from Nazi Germany, it also,provides in-depth profiles of those involved and,the service and what became of them after the,war. It reveals details long forgotten in both,Ireland and Germany, for example, the involvement,a permanent member of the Irish civil Service who,ran the service whilst on leave of abscence from,the National Museum of Dublin.

Author: Tom Wall
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785372270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Dachau to the Dolomites is the dramatic but little-known story of a group of prominent Nazi SS hostages transported from various concentration camps to a remote Alpine valley in the final days of the Third Reich. Five Irishmen were among the 160 prisoners whom Himmler and other SS leaders attempted to use as barter to save the regime or, as a final resort, themselves. As well as eminent international statesmen, aristocrats and clergy, the group contained opposition German generals and civilian relatives of those who had plotted against Hitler, including the family of Claus von Stauffenberg, who placed the bomb in Hitler's Wolf's Lair. Among the hostages were a number of British officers, survivors of the famous 'Great Escape', and also Colonel John McGrath from Roscommon, a World War I veteran who had left his job as manager of Dublin's Theatre Royal to rejoin the British Army in 1939. They had been held with Russian, Italian and Polish special prisoners as 'Nacht und Nebel' - Night and Fog - prisoners, whose existence was a state secret. They lived in constant danger of execution, a fate some did not escape, including Stalin's son, who died following a fracas with Irish prisoners. It is an astonishing and epic tale encompassing heroic endurance, escape, betrayal, tragedy and love.

Author: Gerry Mullins
Publisher: Liberties Press
ISBN: 1909718084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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In the 1930s, Dr Adolf Mahr was head of the National Museum of Ireland, where he earned the title 'the father of Irish archaeology'. He was also the head of the Nazi Party in Ireland, and was dubbed 'Dublin Nazi No. 1'. Under pressure from Irish and British military intelligence, he left for Germany shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, never to return. To this day, he is considered in some circles to have been a spy who used his position at the museum to help prepare Germany's invasion plan of Ireland. During the war, he became director of Irland-Redaktion, the German propaganda radio service that broadcast into neutral Ireland. He was later arrested and tortured by the British, and upon his release tried to return to Ireland, but to no avail. He remains one of the most controversial figures in twentieth-century Irish history.

Author: Mervyn O'Driscoll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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In the 1920s Germany and Ireland were new European democracies operating in adverse international, political and economic conditions. This book places the bilateral Irish-German relationship in the context of the professionalization of the Irish Foreign Service and the Irish Free State's progressive carving out of an independent foreign policy. It assesses the key Irish personalities involved in Irish-German relations. These include the successive Irish representatives in Berlin, the eminent scholar Dr Daniel A. Binchy, Leo T. McCauley, and the contentious Charles Bewley. Eamon de Valera and Joseph Walshe (Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs) also played a crucial role. Irish responses to the Wall Street Crash, the rise of the Nazis, and Hitler's policies (domestic and foreign) are all analysed. Did Irish officials foresee the fall of Weimar and the rise of Nazism? How did they view the unfolding nature of the Nazi regime? The clashes between Bewley's apologetic justifications of Nazism after 1935 and de Valera's critical attitudes towards domestic Nazi policies are examined. The ineffective efforts to expand Irish-German trade during the Anglo-Irish Economic War shed light on Irish attempts at export market diversification in the emerging protectionist world economic environment. The analysis places Irish-German relations within the maturation of events in Europe in the 1930s, taking account of the League of Nations' failure, the popularity of Fascism, the Blueshirts, the fraught international atmosphere, and Hitler's revisionist foreign policy. De Valera's support of Chamberlain's 'appeasement' of Hitler before March 1939 is located in the framework of de Valera's attitudes towards collective security, neutrality and Hibernia Irredenta.

Author: Mark M. Hull
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806158360
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor during World War II, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James’s story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the most important events of the twentieth century. James’s life—both real and imagined—makes for an incredible but true story. By altering her identity to suit the situation, James manipulated almost everyone she encountered: the German intelligence service, the Nazi propaganda broadcasting service, British intelligence, and various Irish cultural groups. She was in a liaison with Irish writer Francis Stuart and, with him, provided a voice for Nazi radio programs aimed at neutral Ireland, served as the pseudo-Irish expert for German espionage missions, and participated in the failed, almost comical effort to recruit Irish prisoners of war to join the Nazis against Great Britain—quite a series of performances, considering her only contact with Ireland had been a weeklong visit in 1937. Immediately after the war, James was wanted by British intelligence as a “renegade” (traitor), but her case was quickly squelched by the British government. Drawing on an assumed wartime persona, she became fluent in Irish Gaelic and organized a number of conferences for which she won grants from the Irish government. James garnered wider attention in 1992 with her autobiography, published in Gaelic, in which she claimed that the Holocaust was a myth—a belief she maintained until her death in 2013. In documenting James’s life of deception, Hull and Moynes masterfully analyze how an intellectually gifted child turned traitor to her country and convincingly rebranded herself as an Irish patriot and intellectual, while denying historical reality. The story of Rosaleen James reminds us that reality may be much less—or more—than what meets the eye and ear.

Author: Michèle Callan
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1848896069
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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In 1943, thirty-two Irish POWs refused a Gestapo request to work for Germany. They were sent to a labour camp, where they were starved, beaten and forced to dig the foundations for a Nazi super-structure codenamed Bunker Valentin - an immense U-boat factory. Thousands of the camp's prisoners perished, including five of the Irishmen; bodies fell into the foundations and were never recovered. The surviving Irishmen were saved by the goodwill of decent Germans.Among them was Harry Callan, a Catholic boy from Derry who went to sea at sixteen as a British Merchant Navy seaman. His ship had been captured by a German raider two years before he ended up at the labour camp. Harry was unable to speak about the brutality he experienced for decades after he was liberated. When he finally began to tell his story, his family were shocked by what they heard.In his eighties, Harry agreed to revisit the site of his incarceration. He found local historians had no evidence of the Irish prisoners: they had disappeared from official records. Determined to give his comrades recognition, he began working to preserve their memory. This is the gripping story of Harry's capture, resistance and liberation.But above all, it is the final chapter in his quest to honour the forgotten heroes of Bunker Valentin.

Author: Declan Hayes
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781706509332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Following on from his decades of peace activism, acclaimed Irish academic Dr Declan Hayes revisits Irish history to highlight the unlikely roles the Nazis, MI6, the CIA and the Israeli terrorist Irgun group played in disrupting its revolutionary dynamic and in ensuring modern Irish politicians and their social media "influencers" are the paid puppets of NATO, ISIS, the MEK and similar terrorist groupings, as well as of the various pharmaceutical and Silicon Valley conglomerates that own Ireland's Transgender(TM) Inc movement and far too much of Dublin's real estate as well. Although his approach is decidedly and deliberately unorthodox, he shows us how MI6 subvert, emasculate and monetise supposedly revolutionary groups and how terrorist groups like Irgun can co-opt to their cause the unlikeliest of movements, the Irish revolutionary and feminist movements and all that sprang from them in this case. Declan spells out the crux of the problem: the CIA, MI6 and allied intelligence groups penetrating and permeating Ireland's religious, political, feminist, cultural and industrial groups and orchestrating them to control the masses in the interests of the world's warmongers and against the interests of the embattled Irish people. Hayes not only dequeers, in the simplest of English, Nazi collaborator's Michel Foucault's baloney but, by looking closely at Ireland's supposed radicals, he shows up Foucault's tropes for the self-serving pottage that they are not only in Ireland, but in other satellite statelets as well.In a long and distinguished career, Dr Hayes has lectured in finance at both undergraduate and graduate level in leading universities and to Fortune 500 companies in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Here follows what the media and establishment politicians think of his peace process efforts: Declan Hayes is a notorious Assad supporter: Huge Gye, The Sun.A dangerous extremist: The Sunday Times.A controversial academic who writes for a think-tank run by a Vladimir Putin ally: Mail on Sunday.An Assad apologist... on an Interpol watchlist: Mail on Sunday.Assad and Putin apologist Declan Hayes: James Bickerton, political editor of Backbencher.An alleged member of a Putin-linked policy group: Daily Mail.Dangerous Assad apologist: Sunday Express.An apologist for tyrant Bashar Assad: Marco Giannangeli, Sunday Express.A dangerous extremist: Sunday Express.The fact that the leader of the (British) opposition was getting advice from someone (Hayes) who is peddling the Russian story is worrying and distressing: Col Hamish de Bretton Gordon.Hayes' views on the merits of NATO and Western values, and the democratic freedoms that NATO seeks to protect, will not give any comfort to those whose duty it is to protect the UK. Frankly, it's dangerous: Crispin Blunt, MP.Some of Declan Hayes' views on the situation in Syria tend to be very one-sided, so some of what he says and writes should be treated with caution: Commandant Edward Horgan, former military commander of Portlaoise Concentration Camp, Ireland.Regime supporter Declan Hayes said he was proud to have spent the last three months with the Syrian Arab Army: Mark Boothroyd, British coordinator for Syrian terrorist support groups. Declan Hayes, a notorious Assad apologist: Order-Order, a notorious far-right website.